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Am I Entitled to Local Housing Allowance?
Please could I have some advice? I am a 35 year old single father of a 7 year old boy who is profoundly autistic and has ADHD. I work full time as a postman but I'm currently off sick, as I find working and caring too stressful. Ultimately, I will either be sacked, medically retired, or I'll take a long term career break.…
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JSA and Housing Benefit
does incomes from JSA affect and therefore reduce Housing Benefit payments? my partner and myself are getting £44 a week from Housing Benefit and I would get £60 from JSA, would it therefore reduce our Housing Benefit to nothing? i have an interview with the JSA people on monday regarding starting a claim, but don't see…
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HB Overpaid and their fault!
Last year we received the Housing benefit form to fill in and I'd gone down from DLA Middle rate care to low rate care. This made a difference as me and my hubby lost income support. On the new form I put down the new benefit rate etc, sent everything in, our bank statements that they requested. They sent us what we are…
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Money in early??
My child tax has gone into my bank today , usually goes in mondays i don't know why they have done this it's not a bank holiday monday or anything :confused: .
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Do they use Voice Lie Detector SW at Tax Credits?
I was reading in the paper about Government depts using this SW and wondered how wide spread it is. What are the rules governing it's use etc. The reason I ask is I phoned them last week and although I didn't lie I'm now worried I may have made a mistake. I don't think I did but after I read this I started to worry.
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Housing benefit Overpayment Questions
Please could anyone offer any advice? I claimed HB at our old council house address (I have a husband and 2 kids under 10). For 1 week at the end of feb 08 my hub claimed jobseekers. He then found work after 1 week on JSA, and we applied for HB. He was receiving minimum wage (about £220 pw gross). We are now at a new…
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What is included in saving limitation
the majority of benefits is only limited to have saving under 6000, does this including your private pension contribution? and does it including ISA? Thanks
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Incapacity benefit & renting out rooms
Does renting out a room(s) in your home effect incapacity benefit? What if you have a buy-to-let house?
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Wftc And Savings
:confused: What is the current limit on savings when claiming WFTC? If my child has 5K invested and I have 3K (we wish!) does this mean we can't claim it? The site is a little confusing.
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When Phoning info to Tax Credits. How is it Signed?
Hi I was just wondering what happens when phoning in any changes to Tax Credits. With the paper version you sign it but what is the equivalent if you Phoned your reply. ;-)
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Advice needed Re Incapacity Benefit
Hello, I am wondering if anyone can help me? I have been on Incapacity for 16 years and high rate DLA mobility & Care due to my chronic illness. I was made aware of a possible NI hiccup a few years ago when my name appeared via the DWP attached to savings accounts that weren't mine, to cut a long story short after…
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What Benefit can i claim
Hi ,i work from home,i get paid not by the hour but by the item made meaning i make something and get 35p for it.Weekly this works out an average of £80 to £90,i am receiving WTC and CTC ,is their any way that i can get income support so that i could get help with mortgage,council tax.Thanks
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What would I be entitled too?
I think the nursery is going to refuse entry for my children due to arrears owed etc etc. (I'm currently in serious carp and am trying my best to get out of it - see my debt diary!!) I'm currently working part-time and my husband works full-time. If the children are 'chucked' out of the nursery and I have to leave my…
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Job Grant + In Work Credit
Anyone know how long these take to come through? I started my new job today, 16 hours pw in the pound shop, informed dwp yesterday and tax credits today. What happens with the run on of HB and CTB? Do you get a letter telling you when they will stop paying them? Dont want to end up in arrears. I'm so pleased to have a…
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Do WTC cover playschemes?
How do i go about adding this on to my tax credit claim, my average weekly costs during term time are 45 a week after school and breakfast clubs with the school 165 for nursery but during the holidays it goes up by 15 a week for play schemes, do i have to notify them as its a change of provider? Do they help with…
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pathways to work
does anyone have any experience of this DSS scheme?.especially in north wales? i've been told I Have to take part and im petrified.Worringly the jobcentre cant tell me anything other than they are mandated to refer people to the agency with the contract for delivery but even they have no idea what that agency "does to…
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Voluntary redundancy: IB?
Hi there, I'm writing on behalf of my sister who has been made voluntarily redundant. She has depression and it has got much worse since she started looking for a new job that the doctor has given her a month's sick note and advised her not to work for a while, she will give another sick note each month that my sister…
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DLA appeal
I was just woundering if any one has appealed against DLA for lowering the rate. I sent my renewal forms back in Feb and had been chasing them for some time now made endless call and at one point complained about one person who insisted they had sent request information from the school & i will have to wait dispite the…
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Tax credits-a question?
Hi there, Myself and my partnet are making a joint claim for child tax credits. She has just moved in with me we have 2 children her teenage daughter still at school and a new born. She notified tax credit people that she is now living with me and they have stopped her claim as a single person i.e the reason we are making…
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House rent
Benefits have got me sick to the head i dont want to keep getting in stress over benefits i want to be able to live without benefits and be independant. At the moment i am signing on for j.s.a as the income support dep told me i got to claim for j.s.a for some reason i dont know why (i guess should appeal). we have a house…